SCHOLL AurelienDENISE 1884. Paperback. Fine. SCHOLL. Aurelien. DENISE. (MEUNIER binding). Paris: Ed. Rouveyre et G. Blond, 1884. Illustrations by Grivas, engraved by Arents. This is #18 of 50 numbered copies on Japon, out of an edition of 100, each with an additional suite of the illustrations on Japon, without the text. Scarlet morocco levant with gilt frame of branches, leaves and bird, surrounded by 4 filets, design repeated in spine compartments, with the addition of roses. T.e.g. Original wrappers bound-in. Signed on gilt floral turn-in by Charles Meunier. Fine. With the addition of a tipped-in autograph letter, signed by Scholl, about an earlier edition of this title.

TWAIN, Mark.1884 1st UK ed Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark TWAIN Tom Sawyer Illustrated London : Chatto & Windus, 1884. First edition, second impression. BAL 3414. &#147;Spottiswoode&#148; on copyright. - 1884 1st UK ed Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark TWAIN Tom Sawyer Illustrated &#147;the most praised and most condemned 19th-century American work of fiction&#148; - Legacies of Genius. &#147;All modern literature comes from one book by Mark Twain. It&#146;s the best book we&#146;ve had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing since.&#148; &#150; Earnest Hemingway Mark Twain&#146;s momentous book Huckleberry Finn has been the source of arguments, discussion, and controversy since it first appeared in 1885. It has been reprinted countless times and is still considered to be one of the most popular American novels, if not the most popular. This first English edition, is the second impression of the work. This copy has Sequence B &#145;saddle-stitched&#146; with wire staples rather than sewn. The British printing preceded the more famous American edition by four months. Item number: #358 Price: $ 950 TWAIN, Mark. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn : (Tom Sawyer's comrade) ; scene: the Mississippi Valley. Time: Forty to fifty years ago London : Chatto & Windus, 1884. First edition, second impression. BAL 3414. &#147;Spottiswoode&#148; on copyright. Details: &#149; Collation complete with all pages: [xvi], 438 &#149; Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure &#149; Language: English &#149; Size: ~7.5in X 5.5in (19cm x 13.5cm) Our Guarantee: Very Fast. Very Safe. Free Shipping Worldwide. Customer satisfaction is our priority! Notify us with 7 days of receiving, and we will offer a full refund without reservation! 358 Photos available upon request [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Romanoff, N. M.Mémoires sur les lépidoptères. Rédigés par N. M. Romanoff. Tome I-II, IV-VI, and IX. - St.-Pétersbourg, Privately published, 1884-1897. Six volumes [of nine] in six, 4to (29.0 x 19.4 cm; the volumes I, II, IV slightly smaller). Text, and 90 plates of which 89 finely hand-coloured [I (1884) 181 pp., 10 plates; II (1885) 262 pp., 16 plates; IV (1890) xvii, 577 pp., 22 plates (including one tinted plate A, between pp. 192-193), one rose-tinted table on p. 146, and a rose-tinted map on p. 196. Lacks one map (as usual); V (1889) [i], 248 pp., 12 plates; VI (1892) 701 pp., 16 plates; IX (1897) 367 pp., 14 plates]. Contemporary half calf over embossed cloth. Spines five raised bands and gilt title. Speckled edges [volumes I-II, IV]; Later half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt title. Patterned endpapers [volumes V, VI, IX].l A beautifully illustrated work and one of the rarest publications on butterflies. Even single volumes are very rare, and of volume 8 only about ten copies exist, since most were destroyed in a fire. This set comprises volumes 1-2, 4-6, and 9. A modern reprint of volume 8 is included for free. In this set, all 89 plates that should be finely hand-coloured are indeed so. The work contains contributions by several leading entomologists of the late 19th century, including Christoph, Snellen, Standfuss, Staudinger, and others, including Romanoff himself. Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanoff (1859-1919) was the only naturalist of the Czar family. He was murdered by the Bolsheviks. The various contributions here are mainly written in German and French, and many new species are introduced. Volume IV forms a single, large monograph, titled "Le Pamir et sa fauna lépidoptérologique" and is written by G. Groum-Grshimaïlo, who provided several other contributions. It lacks the map. Otherwise all volumes are complete. Copies having several or many of the plates uncoloured do exist, but in this set all plates are in original, very fine hand-colouring. Former owner's name handwritten in the upper margin of the title pages of volumes V, VI, and IX; some shallow worming in the spine of volumes V-IX, and few pages lightly spotted, otherwise a fine, clean set. All volumes were printed in very low numbers, so they are rarely for sale. Junk, Bibliotheca Lepidopterologica, 2268; Nissen ZBI, 4678. Not in Horn-Schenkling II. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Lang, A.Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der Angrenzenden Meeres-Abschnitte. XI. Monographie: Die Polycladen. - Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1884. Two volumes in two. Large 4to (33.3 x 27.2 cm). ix, 688 pp., 54 text engravings, 39 lithographed plates, of which 11 in beautiful full colour (chromolithographs), and several partly coloured, with explanatory text. Original uniform wrappers with printed text and wood engraving of the Institute' s building in Naples.l Very rare and very beautifully illustrated monograph of the often spectacularly coloured swimming flatworms, which often closely resemble nudibranchs. A massive work, published in two parts. Published as part 11 of the series "Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel". Other parts of this series deal with other marine organisms; this is the only work on flatworms. The large plates are printed by Werner & Winter Lithographische Anstalt in Frankfurt am Main and are of excellent quality. An uncut copy, thus with the widest possible margins. This volume is of further interest because it contains a 4 pp. list of subscribers (including the German emperor, and noted zoologists such as Alexander Agassiz, Carus, Percy Sladen, Brusina, Barboza du Bocage, Retzius, and others). Also present is the 2 pp. list of published and planned monographs in this series, including, as vol. 16, the eolidie by Trinchese (who died in 1897) and, as vol. 32, the amphineureans by Hubrecht (1853-1915). Neither were published, their volume numbers being used for other monographs. Rear wrapper of second volume detached; otherwise very good, with fine, clean plates. Nissen ZBI, 2100. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

Greene, W. T.Parrots in captivity. - London, George Bell and Sons, 1884-1887. Three volumes in three. 8vo (25 x 17.5 cm). (I) xiv, 114 pp; (II) x, 144; (III) viii, 144, with in total 81 beautiful colour-printed, wood-engraved plates, including a frontispiece. Uniform publisher's green cloth with gilt title on the spines and gilt parrot vignette on the front boards.l One of the most attractively illustrated works on parrots, by the English medical doctor and zoologist William Thomas Greene (d. 1906). "An account of the habits of 81 varieties of parrots (including cockatoos, macaws, parakeets, etc.) with special reference to their behaviour in cage or aviary" (Zimmer p. 274). The fine plates are by Benjamin Fawcett (1808-1893) from drawings by his former apprentice, Alexander Francis Lydon (1836-1917). Fawcett and Lydon are best known for their works in (colour) wood engraving, the present work being an example of their chromoxylographical skills. A copy without the usual foxing. Foot of spines slightly frayed, a few leaves loosening, otherwise very good. Nissen IVB, 393; Zimmer p. 274. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

William Waugh SmithOutlines of psychology: Succinctly presented with illustrations and a chart together with an allegorical illustration of the whole Chautauqua Assembly, 1884. First printing hardcover. The book is near very good with shelfwear (rubbed through to the boards at the corners), a bit of foxing to the pages and more to the foldout chart, There is no dust jacket (I believe it was issued without one). A nice example of a very scarce first printing.. First Printing. Hard Cover. Good.

WHELESS, THOS. H. [REPORTED BY]SPEECH OF HON. A. W. TERRELL, DELIVERED IN THE SENATE OF TEXAS, JANUARY 21, 1884, ON SENATE BILL NO. 2, ENTITLED "AN ACT TO REGULATE THE GRAZING OF STOCK IN TEXAS, AND TO PRESCRIBE AND PROVIDE PENALITIES FOR ITS VIOLATION." Austin: E. W. Swindells, State Printer, 1884., 1884. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Printed wrappers, 24 pp. A very exhaustive speech touching upon many subjects such as "First Causes For Fence Cutting," "Extent of School Land," "Conditions of Panhandle Country," "Roaming Stockmen," "Free Grass Great Cause," "Farmers Taxed for Free Grass," "Where Fence Cutting Started," "Small Stockmen Protected," "Capitol Lands," "Legislative Robbery," etc. Raines p.201 says "Commonly called the "Free Grass Bill." Herd 2240 says "Rare. Also deals with fence cutting." Light wear to head of spine, a bit of minor wear to the top edges of a few pages, and a small cellophane tape stain to the front wrappers, else a very good copy.

de Rochas, Albert.Le Livre de Demain (Blois): R. Marchand, 1884. 5 1/2 x 9. Complete in 44 gatherings (over 400 pages) plus extras* including a signed portrait of Rochas inscribed by him "A mon collaborateur anonyme." Most copies, which were sold by subscription, did not have this portrait. Loose, as issued, in a later leather & marbled board chemise wrapper & matching slipcase. Small bookplate inside chemise. A wonderful production showcasing the potential of paper, ink, color, illustration, and typography. Fine copy. De Rochas felt that superior printing was concentrated in only two or three firms. But if bibliophiles could see what was possible, they could extract this high quality from local printers in the future. In the first 67 pages, de Rochas discusses paper, ink, and color. The specimens that follow are printed on papers of various textures, weights, and colors. Almost every page is printed in at least two colors with the text block enclosed in a typographic border of contrasting colors, or gold, or silver. The color combination borders are different in each specimen. There are several engravings, silhouettes, and photo-lithographs done for this work, and 4 color wheels. One fascicle contains 10 paper samples from papyrus to Chinese and Japanese papers. The table of contents identifies each text (generally contemporary prose or poetry with several pieces done specifically for this publication), identifies the paper used, and gives a page count for each fascicle.No. 91 of 250 copies, signed by de Rochas and by the printer/publisher Raoul Marchand. * Extras in this copy: The Jaune de Voiron paper gathering (#28) has the 11 p. "Le Paradis Perdu' (p. 12 is another impression of the silhouette) plus the alternate 16 page section "Dissertation...' and a duplicate etching in gathering 39. There is considerable variation in content among the copies we have seen. The book's limitation was dictated by the availability of the 44 different papers used. Many copies have fewer gatherings, and it is possible the printer ran out of some paper types. De Rochas' work was issued in wraps, as Subscribers were expected to provide a "reliure définitive." De Rochas created his specimens at a time when a similar impetus toward higher quality printing was occurring in England and the U. S. However, he appears to have done so independently, and to have been unaware of the "Printers' Specimen Exchange" or of Harpel's two publications of a similar nature. Scarce.

John WisdenJohn Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1884 - 1884 Original Paperback Wisden. No Restoration. Hi, I recently purchased a set of Wisdens and the first 50 of the run were in a suitcase that had not been opened for over 50 years. This lot is an 1884 Original Paperback Wisden. It has the Original Spine Paper without any Restoration. It is in Very Good Condition for the year. The spine paper is excellent, just some wear to the ends and to the side. The book is very tightly bound, the covers have some darkness to them, mainly in the middle of the front cover. Internally it is very nice and clean and hasn't been opened for a while. Spotting to page block but not much at all inside the book. Some rounding off on the corners of the covers and first couple of pages. No restoration.

Charles J Howard;THE LITTLE SHOWMAN'S SERIES NO. 2. SPRING. HOW WE AMUSE OURSELVES IN DOORS. N Y: McLoughlin Bros. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1884. First Edition. Hardcover. Color Pop-ups; Spring, How We Amuse Ourselves In Doors, with color lithograph illustrations, depicting children and pets whiling away the day indoors. Stand-up tab replaced, cellophane still in window, but with tear, soiling to poem Presumably. First edition, from the second of the Little Showman's series. The first series presents different animals in cages, the second series the seasons and related activities. Very- well preserved diorama with illustr. Publisher's announcement for the new 'Object teaching book' on rear board. WolrdCat returns but three copies [Smithsonian, Toronto and Yale]. Auction records but a single copy. Quite rare. Aprox 10 x 14". ; 0 .

Fontane, Theodor, German writer (1819-1898).Autograph letter signed ("Th. Fontane"). Berlin, 9. I. 1884. 1884. 8vo. 1¾ pages on bifolium. To an unnamed addressee, thanking for the invitation to a commercium, but declining due to his age. - Slightly spotty.

DeGroot, HenryRECOLLECTIONS OF CALIFORNIA MINING LIFE. San Francisco, CA: Dewey & Co., 1884. 16 pages of text. Original blue printed paper wrappers, with illustraion by Charles Nahl, with minor to moderate soiling and rubbing, and a few scuffs. There is one small stab hole at the lower corner running through all pages. In addition to the 5 interior illustrations, both covers are illustrated. See Howes D220. Wheat, Books of the Gold Rush #56: "crammed with gold discovery data." Detailed history of the first strikes, the men who made them, their fate, and the history of Sutter's Mill, where Marshall made the first strike. First edition.. First Edition. Paperback. Very good- condition. Octavo (8vo).

GONZÁLEZFinely penned Document signed, in Spanish with translation, to the President of Peru, (Manuel, 1833-1893, President of Mexico 1880-1884) 1884 - (General Miguel Iglesias, 1822-1901, President 1883-1885), thanking him "with great satisfaction" for Iglesias' letter explaining that "appointed President for the renewal of Peru by the Assembly of Cajamarca in December 1882, Your Excellency [Iglesias] peacefully occupied Your capital on the 23rd of the following October, having signed with the Government of Chile on the 20th . the peace so longed for by your own people and by foreign countries", and that although Iglesias' position "is uncertain, since You have already summoned for the 1st March next the General Constituent Assembly . You have not wanted this short interval to pass, without bringing to my notice the happy successes accomplished in Peru", thanking Iglesias for his good wishes, his successes "are all the more agreeable, as they concern a sister Republic which has just emerged from a prolonged and desolating struggle", 2 sides folio, Mexico City, 29th January two small pinholes in blank upper left corner of first side From 1879-1882 Chile was at war with Peru, who had taken the side of Bolivia in a dispute over the Chilean Nitrate Company. Chile's real aim in invading was the rich province of Tarapacá. After the fighting was over an attempt was made to form an administration which could agree terms with Chile, who continued to occupy Lima. General Iglesias was nominated and in October 1883 a treaty was signed, but the invaders maintained a strong force at Chorillos till the treaty was finally approved in July 1884, including the transfer to Chile of Tarapacá. The Peruvians of the interior under General Cáceres refused to recognise Iglesias, and in December 1885 Iglesias abdicated. [Attributes: Signed Copy]

Lundborg, CharlesShips Upon New Designs Washington D. C.: Government Printing Office. Good. 1884. Hardcover. This book includes a report for the House of Representatives titled "Improvements in Steamships: Memorial Relating to Inventions and Improvements in Steamships by Capt. Charles G. Lundborg, Formerly of the Royal Swedish Navy" with two tipped in, sepia-toned frontispieces and four fold-out plates. Boards are dark brown with title gilt on front. Boards have moderate wear and soiling, and top and bottom of spine have light chipping. All edges have moderate foxing. Presentation copy with author's signature on first endpaper. Moderate foxing to frontispieces and light foxing and soiling to fold-out plates. All plates have a 1" tear where bound into book. Frontispieces are tipped in photographs of proposed steamship models, or photographs of paintings of proposed steamship models. Plates are b&w and contain charts concerning improvements of steamships. In this report, Charles Lundborg, a former Captain of the Royal Swedish Navy, provided new ship models for the improvement of the U. S. Navy which were received with enthusiasm. Two copies in OCLC as of May 2017. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 71 pp; Signed by Author .

DE LONG, George W[ashington] [1844-1881]The Voyage Of The Jeannette. The Ship And Ice Journals Of George W. De Long, Lieutenant-Commander U.S.N., And Commander Of The Polar Expedition Of 1879-1881. Edited By His Wife, Emma De Long... Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin And Company, 1884. Second American Edition. Account of the American Jeannette Expedition of 1879-81, financed by J.G.Bennett of the New York Herald, and commanded by George W.De Long. The Jeannette sailed from San Francisco into Bering Sea and through Bering Strait, but was caught in the ice near Herald Island in November of 1879. For nineteen months she drifted northwest until the ship was finally crushed and sank northeast of the New Siberian Islands. Twenty-five of the thirty-three men who abandoned the ship reached the Lena Delta, but there De Long and eleven others perished. The search expeditions for the survivors are also related here. Arctic Bib. 3839. cfNational Maritime Museum I 965. Smith 2391. 2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xii, 440; xii, [441]-911. 20 plates (1 tinted lithograph, 2 steel engraved portraits & 17 wood-engravings), 7 maps (3 folding - 1 in rear pocket, 2 double-page) & numerous text illus. & maps (several full-page). wood-engraved title vignettes. A very nice set in original black, gilt & blind-stamped cloth (slight fraying to spine ends)

BARNEBY, W[illiam] H[enry]Life And Labour In The Far, Far West: Being Notes of a Tour In The Western States, British Columbia,Manitoba, And The North-West Territory. London, Paris & New York.Cassell & Company. 1884.. Soft cover. 8vo, 21.6cm, xvi,432p., complete withhalf-title. With a folding frontis (some expert repairs on the folds) anda large folding coloured map, Bound in full dark green morocco, gilt andblind ruled raised bands, gilt spine titles and gilt centre panel devicedecorations, gilt decorated borders on the boards with two gilt totempoledesigns on both covers, "Indian Idols, Vancouver's Island", wide innergilt dentelles, match marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, armorialbookplate "Charles Anthony", a fine copy in fine motif decorated binding,rare. (cgc) The folding frontis, which is only found in a few copies,is a facsimile of an Indian chief's (North-West Territory of Canada)record of government supplies, as given to his tribe each year at treatytimes, 1873 to 1877. The printed explanatory note printed on the versoof the plate is dated January 1885; the plate must therefore have beentipped in after publication and rarely turns up. Presentation on thehalf-title: Charles Anthony, Esq (Jun.), with the Author's very kindregards, Bredenbury Court, May 31st, 1884. Lande S145 (with facsimileplate, present only in some copies). Lowther 641. Smith 560. cfGraff 187.cf. Peel 714. Waterston p160. This volume is the actual transcript froma journal kept during a tour made in North America in the spring andsummer of 1883, during which the author travelled through Utah to SanFrancisco, the Yosemite Valley, Los Angeles, up the coast to Victoria,Nanaimo, New Westminster, through the Cascade and Rocky Mountains andacross the Canadian and American prairies. More than half of thenarrative relates to the Canadian prairies (Regina, Moose Jaw, MedicineHat, Qu'Appelle, Pembina, &c.). Appended is The Kootenay Lake Districtby Mr. W.A.Baillie-Grohman. ". our objective was to collect asmuch information as possible, more especially as regards farming andemigration, in the hope of thus being able to assist those in England whomight be thinking of seeking a new home across the Atlantic"(preface). .

COZZENS, Frederic S. (1846-1928)A Stern Chase and a Long One Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1884 - Colour-printed lithograph, mounted on card. Frederic Cozzens was one of America's greatest marine artists. Like nearly every other great marine artist, he was thoroughly acquainted with every aspect of ship construction and the art of sailing. He is best known for his paintings of great American yachts of the latter half of the 19th century, which were commissioned by many of New York's leading yachtsmen. In 1884, Frederic Cozzens expanded his audience by making a series of lithographs of his paintings. The first and most brilliant series was American Yachts, Their Clubs and Races from which this print comes. A Stern Chase and a Long One depicts a race that took place in June of 1876 between the Countess of Dufferin , the America , the Grant and Madeleine . The Madeleine came in first, America second (both American boats), and the Countess of Dufferin , a Canadian yacht, finished third. Jacobsen. Frederic Cozzens. Marine Painter , New York: 1982.

Hawthorne, JulianARCHIBALD MALMAISON .. New York: Funk &amp; Wagnalls, Publishers, 1884.. Octavo, pp. [1-5] 6-126 [127-144: publisher ads], fly leaves at front and rear, original decorated bevel-edged orange cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black and gold, yellow endpapers. First U.S. edition. The first printing with ad on page 144 headed "The Standard Library, 1884." Issued as part of Funk & Wagnalls' "Standard Library Series" in paper at 15¢ and in cloth (as here) at 75¢. This edition contains the same five-page "Introductory" section found in the Bentley first edition (and omitted from the later 1899 Funk & Wagnalls edition). Hawthorne's neo-Gothic horror novel ARCHIBALD MALMAISON, first published in 1879 in London by Richard Bentley and Son, is his most melodramatically effective work of fiction. "Hawthorne's most powerful horror story ..." - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. 196. "Crowded with many Gothic manifestations, it arouses still the horror intended ... The story proved to be one of Hawthorne's most popular, both in England and America ..." - Bassan, Hawthorne's Son: The Life and Literary Career of Julian Hawthorne (1970), pp. 126-27. The author is at his most assured in this book, in perfect control of his material, and a pleasure to observe. A contemporary review in The London Times was typical of its reception abroad: "After perusal of this weird, fantastic tale, it must be admitted that upon the shoulders of Julian Hawthorne has descended in no small degree the mantle of his more illustrious father. The climax is so terrible, and so dramatic in its intensity, that it is impossible to class it with any situation of modern fiction. There is much psychological ingenuity shown in some of the more subtle touches that lend an air of reality to this wild romance." Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 2-77. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 107. Bleiler (1978), p. 96. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Other than a few insect tracks to rear panel and hint of fading to spine, a bright, fine copy. (#130730)

Stockton, Frank R.The Lady, or The Tiger? And Other Stories New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884. First edition. 201, [1], 8, ads] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Original pictorial gray and brown cloth. Bookplate of Blairhame. In Brown cloth slipcase and inner box. First edition. 201, [1], 8, ads] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Stockton (1834-1902), novelist, editor, and story writer, widely admired by his contemporaries, is today remembered mainly for the classic short story which forms the title to this collection. Originally called "The King's Arena" the author read it to some friends at a party and the reception was so favorable that he expanded it and sent it to The Century, where it became the most famous story the magazine ever published; it lives on in countless anthologies. BAL 18880; Queen's Quorum #12; Merle Johnson High Spot

Greenaway, KateLANGUAGE OF FLOWERS George Routledge and Sons, London 1884 - (Greenaway, Kate) LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. London: George Routledge and Sons, [1884]. First edition (Schuster 107-1f). 16mo - 4-7/8" x 6". Imitation white morocco boards with title and triple-line border gilt-stamped to front cover and blind-stamped triple-line border to back cover with slight overall dusting for what is a bright, attractive copy of the book. Light green endpapers, edges gilt. 80 pp. of text and full color illustrations offer Greenaway's view of the world of flowers and plants. Printed in colours by Edmund Evans. The condition of the book is FINE. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

Hearn, LafcadioSTRAY LEAVES FROM STRANGE LITERATURE 1884. Stories. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1884. Original dark royal blue cloth decorated in black. First Edition of Hearn's first book (other than an 1882 translation of Gautier). This was Hearn's attempt to reconstruct "fantastically beautiful stories from the exotic literature which fascinated him" [OCAL].~Born in the Ionian Islands of Irish-Greek parents, Hearn was educated in England and then in France. (As a schoolboy in England he lost the sight of his left eye in an accident at play; constant reading overtaxed his right eye, over time greatly enlarging it. Partly for this reason, Hearn was afflicted with a morbid inferiority complex.) He emigrated to the United States in 1869, at the age of nineteen; his early years in the U.S. were spent in New York, Cincinnati and then New Orleans, where his principal success as a writer was in writing grotesque and macabre sketches for periodicals. It was not until 1890 that Hearn went to Japan, where he spent the rest of his life.~This copy is in dark royal blue cloth, one of at least seven colors that were used without precedence. It is in near-fine condition -- both endpapers have a very discreet repair at the gutter, but externally the book is essentially fine. Blanck 7912. Housed in a morocco-backed slipcase with inner chemise.

Hawthorne, JulianNathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife. A Biography at the University Press, Cambridge, [Mass.] 1884 - First edition, No 78 of 350 Large Paper Copies. Title pages with etched vignettes, et etched frontispiece portraits of Nathaniel and Daniel Hawthorne, and four other etched plates. vi, [iv], 505;465pp. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. Bound by STIKEMAN & CO. in three quarter blue morocco, richly gilt spines, raised bands, t.e.g. From the library of Agnes Neustadt, with her bookplate. About fine Title pages with etched vignettes, et etched frontispiece portraits of Nathaniel and Daniel Hawthorne, and four other etched plates. vi, [iv], 505;465pp. 2 vols. Royal 8vo First edition, No 78 of 350 Large Paper Copies. [Attributes: First Edition]

Sloan, Robert W. (ed.)Utah Gazetteer and Directory of Logan, Ogden, Provo and Salt Lake Cities, for 1884 Printed for Sloan and Dunbar, by the Herald Printing and Publishing Company, Salt Lake City, UT 1884 - 634pp. Octavo [26 cm] Green cloth with title (very faint) on backstrip. Large fold-out map present at the front. Good plus. The extremities are rubbed, the boards are a bit bowed, and the fore edge corners of the covers are gently bumped. The cloth at the spine ends is chipped with loss, and it is a bit frayed at the edges, occasionally exposing the underlying boards. There is a deep gouge in the surface of the backstrip which is 1/4" wide by 1/2" tall. There are multiple cracks in the endsheets along the hinges (the longest crack measuring 3 inches), and there is a small label from the Juvenile Instructor Publishing House on the front pastedown. The pages are tanned, and the pages at the end are a bit rippled. There is a 2" closed tear in the fold out chart at p. 300. The book is very sturdy. A wealth of period advertisements throughout, some with great illustrations. One of the three original Sloan directories (1869, 1874,1884). Includes a 'Sketch of Mormonism' Flake/Draper 7761. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

DRESSER, H.E.A monograph of the Meropidae, or family of the bee-eaters. London, published by the author, 1884-1886. Folio (380 x 280mm). pp. xix, (1), 1-40, 40a, 40b, 41-144, with 34 hand-coloured lithographs by J.G. Keulemans. Contemporary half morocco, gilt lettered and decorated spine in 6 compartments. The Meropidae was published by the author in five parts between 1884 and 1886.The descriptive text of 144 pp by Dresser also included introductory notes by Frank E. Beddard mainly on the anatomy of the species. An important monograph, 'The Meropidae' is one of three major monographs published by Dresser. The others are 'History of the Birds of Europe 1871-96' still the largest and most complete work on this subject, and 'A Monograph of the Coraciidae 1893'. All have illustrations by Keulemans. Johannes Gerardus Keulemans (1842-1912) began his career as a taxidermist providing stuffed birds to the State Museum of Natural History at Leiden. The Director of that Museum encouraged Keulemans to pursue his love of natural history, where he obtained a scientific appointment after an expedition to West Africa in 1865-66. His accomplishments in illustration came to the notice of Richard Bowdler Sharpe, later a Director of the British Museum, who encouraged him to move to England. He quickly achieved wide recognition and established himself as the most popular bird artist of the late Victorian period. The Bee-Eaters are a group of near passerine birds in the family Meropidae. Most species are found in Africa but others occur in southern Europe, Madagascar, Australia and New Guinea. They are characterised by richly coloured plumage, slender bodies and usually elongated central tail feathers. All are colourful and have long downturned bills and pointed wings, which give them a swallow-like appearance when seen from afar. A fine copy of the rarest and most beautiful of Dresser's monographs.//Fine Bird Books p. 72; Zimmer p. 178; Nissen IVB, 269; Anker p. 56.

SPENCER, Herbert.The Man versus the State: Containing "The New Toryism," "The Coming Slavery," "The Sins of Legislators" and "The Great Political Superstition. London: Williams & Norgate,, 1884. Reprinted from The Contemporary Review, with a Postscript. Octavo (209 x 134 mm). Bound second in a volume of 3 pamphlets, near-contemporary red half calf, green morocco label to spine, raised bands decorated in gilt and compartments ruled in blind, purple pebbled cloth, edges speckled red. Bookplate and library label to front pastedown, library stamp to front free endpaper, some pencil annotations to contents. Light rubbing to extremities, minor wear to corners, boards sunned, hinges cracked but holding, endpapers browned from turn-ins, a very good copy. First edition in book form of Spencer's most scathing and anti-socialist protest against the dangers of incremental legislative reforms, The Man versus the State, first published as four separate articles between February-July 1884. Spencer's journalistic writings of the late 1870s and early 1880s culminated "in his famous polemic against 'the new Toryism' (that is, the social reformist wing of Gladstonian Liberalism), published in 1884 as The Man versus the State. In this he denounced the Liberals for having lost their raison d'être of defending personal liberty, and engaging instead in a long sequence of paternalist social legislation: a sequence that included Irish land reform, compulsory education, safety at work, temperance and licensing laws, free libraries, mitigation of the rigours of the poor law, and a host of other issues. In all these spheres Spencer argued that the substantive content of the measures in question was not at issue; if achieved through altruism and voluntary co-operation, as part of spontaneous adaptation of the social organism, then all of them would have claims to be 'progressive'. What was objectionable was the use of the coercive powers of the state, the discouragement given to voluntary self-improvement, and the disregard of the 'laws of life' relating to individuation and natural selection; all of this was tantamount to 'socialism', which in Spencer's view meant the same as 'slavery'. And above all he was horrified by the all-party enthusiasm for annexation of colonies and imperial expansionthe trend for 'white savages' to make war on indigenous peopleswhich seemed to subvert all he had predicted about evolutionary progress from 'militant' to 'industrial' societies and states" (ODNB). Bound up with The Man versus the State are the following texts by Spencer: a) Over-Legislation. Reprinted, with additions, from the Westminster Review, for July, 1853. [London:] John Chapman, 1854. Pp. 42. First edition in book form, from the series Chapman's Library for the People, of the essay which criticises the government's overzealous superintendence and its deleterious effect on the public's self-confidence and, therefore, its independence. b) The Classification of the Sciences. [London: Williams & Norgate,] 1871. Pp. 64. 3 plates. Third edition, first published as a brochure in 1864, of an essay in which Spencer continues his discussion on the genesis of science by suggesting that "subjective" and "objective" psychology should be regarded as two separate subjects.

Jackson, Helen [Hunt] (H. H.)RAMONA 1884. A Story. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1884. 4 pp undated ads. Original mustard yellow cloth decorated in gilt. First Edition. Helen Fiske was born and raised in Amherst Massachusetts, where she was a close friend of Emily Dickinson; in 1852 she married a Capt. Hunt, but by 1865 he and their two children were dead. Close to despair, she turned to writing. In 1873, to relieve her hay fever, she went to Colorado; there she met and married banker William Jackson, living thereafter in Colorado Springs. She soon developed a growing indignation over the mistreatment of native Americans by the whites -- writing her book A CENTURY OF DISHONOR, which she sent to every member of Congress. RAMONA, far and away her greatest work, was next.~On the southern California ranch of Senora Moreno, a haughty Spaniard who refuses to yield to the onrushing tide of American conquest, live her son Felipe and Ramona Ortegna, a half-Indian and half-Scotch girl who does not realize she has been adopted. To this ranch comes Alessandro, a full-blooded Indian, who falls in love with Ramona and has his love reciprocated until Senora Moreno, enraged at the union between her adopted daughter and an Indian, attempts to sever the romance. Alessandro returns to his native village, which he finds has been destroyed by the Americans, who have also killed his father in seizing the Indian land... [OCAL]~To this day the old Estudillo estate in San Diego is known as "Ramona's Marriage Place," and tourists are encouraged to believe that Ramona and Alessandro were actual persons.~This copy is in mustard yellow cloth (one of several colors offered simultaneously), and is in near-fine condition (very light cover soil, as one would expect with this color cloth); there is scarcely any wear, and the original decorative endpapers are present and intact. This classic western tale has become rather scarce in collectible condition. Blanck 10456; a "Johnson High Spot" selection.